`Two For Life' Money Returns Home

February 08, 1995

The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services has announced the 1994 local allocations from the ``Two for Life'' Funding Program.

The program provides for the allocation of the $2 state vehicle registration fee collected for emergency medical services. Twenty-five percent of the funds collected are returned directly to cities and counties to enhance their emergency medical services system.

The local funds are intended by the legislature to be used for improvements not for current operations. They are also intended to be used specifically for either training programs or equipment purchases.

Funds should reach cities in February and counties in March and April. Additional information about the ``Two for Life'' Funding Program is available from the Peninsulas Emergency Medical Services Council Inc., 642-6118. The Council is a nonprofit organization that helps to coordinate the development of the EMS system on the Peninsula, Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck.

These are the localities; vehicles registered, single year; vehicles registered, multi-year; and the EMS payment for fiscal year 1994-95.